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Over the past twenty years, the use of electronic mobile sensors by children and youngsters has played a significant role in environmental education projects in Portugal. This paper describes a research synthesis of a set of case studies (environmental education projects) on the use of sensors as epistemic mediators, evidencing the technological, environmental, social, and didactical dimensions of environmental education projects over the last two decades in Portugal. The triggers of the identified changes include: (i) the evolution of sensors, information and communication platforms, and mobile devices; (ii) the increasing relevance of environmental citizenship and participation; (iii) the recognition of the role of multisensory situated information and quantitative information in environmental citizenship; (iv) the cause–effect relation between didactical strategies and environmenta.
education goals; (v) the potential of sensory and epistemic learners’ practices in the
environment to produce learning outcomes and new knowledge. To support the use of senses and
sensors in environmental education projects, the SEAM model was created based on the developed
research synthesis.
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Sensors Environmental education Mobile devices Multisensory Cross-case analysis
Citation
Silva, M. J., Gouveia, C., & Gomes, C. A. (2023). The Use of Mobile Sensors by Children: A Review of Two Decades of Environmental Education Projects. Sensors, 23(18), 7677. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23187677